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is generation x generation short-changed?
Scripps Howard News Service is distributing an opinion editorial by Dale McFeatters, Dessert: The Shortchanged Generation. Warning: his ending is a real bummer.There is never a short supply of bum-you-out news in relation to Generation X. It gets old...
[excerpt] gen x mortality looms again
Image via WikipediaFrom the bloggerHayden Thomas"Well, this is a bummer. :( It's not unexpected, but still - Patrick Swayze was too young to go. This would be one more reminder of Gen X's mortality, in a manner of speaking. Not that he was a part of ...
[excerpt] dues-paying died for Gen X in 80s when companies cut long-time employees
From Cheryl Hall's articleMillennials Stagnating in JobsReprinted in the Post and Couriervia The Dallas Morning NewsSeptember 14, 2009"Gen X'ers are products of Reaganism, who grew up watching Alex P. Keaton, the teenage business whiz of TV's "Family...
[excerpt] gen x's rough childhood: institutions rocked, little ones suffer
I've always believed that to know where I'm going, and even where I am, I need to know where I've been. With that said, I've read a lot about the Generation X childhood in an attempt to gain more understanding.On Sunday, The Washington Times publishe...
[excerpt] douglas coupland brings closure to generation x with generation a
"Generation A opens with a Kurt Vonnegut quote from 1994: 'Now you young twerps want a new name for your generation? …I hereby declare you Generation A, as much at the beginning of a series of astonishing triumphs and failures as Adam and Eve were...
generation x headlines: fifth bunnyman dies; clear channel launches gen-x radio
Image via WikipediaI've been a little under the weather this week, so I just learned that Jack Brockman, a former keyboard player with Echo and the Bunnymen, was killed Tuesday in a tragic accident. Visit antimusic.com for more details.I enjoyed the ...
younger gen-xers turning 30 [excerpt from a new york times opinion editorial]
"...I’m part of the Peter Pan-ish Gen-X final trickle — and what do we know about growing up? My friends are all broke, Image via Wikipediasay “whatever” too much, still live in Converses and constant hangovers, still yell at their parents on...
here lies generation x [excerpt]
"It's been a tough summer for Generation X... "...What does it mean to a generation when its touchstones die? "...And for Generation X, it means stepping into a new role in the cultural conversation, redefining who they are and what they mean to the ...
excerpt: gen x cultural artifacts represent pinnacle of western civilization
"...Most generationologists (made-up word, real area of expertise) say that I, born in September 1980, am among the last of the X-ers, though a few lump me in with the Millennials, a.k.a. Generation Y. I don't feel much allegiance to either, to be ho...
excerpt: gen x on the downhill slide
Cover via Amazon"I just noticed Christian Slater is the big 40 today. As far as Gen X Hollywood spokespeople go, him, along with Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Matt Dillon and Janeane Garofolo are it...So happy birthday, Christian Slater. And if you iden...
excerpt: woodstock irony ■ huffington post
"...Gen X and Gen Y, as we know, have very little patience with the boomers. They see them as a self-involved generation that's leaving them a sick planet and a distorted set of values. Health care reform is the last chance the boomers have to live u...
excerpt: who cares about my generation any more? ■ l.a. times
"As the muddy dust of Woodstock nostalgia settles -- taking with it the whining protests of sensitive little-sibling Gen Xers -- the baby boom is immediately reasserting its pop cultural might, this time in a much more effective way... "Music still g...
